lungs, and betakes itself to the land, where it pursues the avocations
of its new and higher life, whereas it before swam by means of a tail
it now leaps, and as before, it ate only roots and grass, it now
becomes a hunter of insects and worms. This, or a very similar process
of reproduction, is common to all species of the family. The Rana Frogs
form the highest group of the Batrachian class. They are active
creatures, feeding on insects and worms. Those which live upon the
ground in the neighborhood of standing water, and pass a considerable
portion of their lives in the water, have their toes pointed, and those
of the hinder feet united, almost to the tips, by membrane.

Food for Tadpoles.

The spawn or egg takes from four to six weeks to hatch to the shape of
a tadpole, and the tadpole takes about four or five months to hatch or
change its shape from that of a tadpole to a small frog, which is done
as stated in previous paragraph. Frogs are very prolific. One bunch of
spawn, from large, well developed frogs, and of five years of age or
over, will produce or hatch over one thousand tadpoles. But of course
all of these will not be raised to become small Frogs. But a great
proportion of them can be if properly cared for and you have the proper
facilities.

The beak of the tadpole is adapted to the eating of leaves and other
vegetable foods, and on which they could entirely subsist. But it is
well to give them access to small insect food, much of which they can
get from surface of water. The food changes entirely when the tadpole
develops into a Frog. When a frog, the food is entirely insect or live
food. It is well, sometimes, when you cannot get facilities to supply
naturally plenty of insect food, to take some of the smaller Frogs and
tadpoles and place them in the ponds with the growing Frogs, and allow
the Frogs to live on them. They must be fed live food. Chopped meats
and food of this character will do for tadpoles, but must not be used
too freely, as they do not eat it readily, and it only decays and a
stifling stench follows. If your ponds are connected with a running
stream, much of the insect life for the tadpoles and smaller Frogs is
brought into the ponds by the stream, which is very desirable, and
saves much extra work. Leave the tadpoles in the nursery pond until
they have developed into Frogs. The tadpoles are fish in a sense and
will eat most anything, either vegetable or animal matter. In f